From the outside, the only clue the Surrey townhouse in Clayton Heights isn’t an ordinary home comes from the windows on the second floor, sealed up with custom built green screen panels and labelled “camera left” and “camera right.

A 48 per cent hike in Vancouver housing prices from 2010 to 2016 is being partly driven up by homebuyers bidding a higher price for a property because they believe foreigners are investing in the market, according to the CMHC.